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Friday, March 28, 2025

Something else you won't read i the NYT: Egypt is still limiting even medical evacuations from Gaza.

The latest UN-OCHA report on the humanitarian situation in Gaza details the problems that the aid workers are facing after Israel closed the borders. Its wording on one issue is worth examining:Humanitarian efforts are crippled as the ban by Israeli authorities on the entry of any supplies has now entered its fourth week. Most movement requests requiring coordination with...

03/27 Links Pt2: I can no longer forgive the Israeli Left; Columbia Is a Basket Case Because of Its Faculty; Hostages and Missing Families Forum nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

From Ian: I can no longer forgive the Israeli Left What’s more, the Israeli Left (a minority after all) has spent decades trying to convince the world, and the rest of Israel, that peace comes from surrender, that empathy will melt away hatred. That if we just humanize our enemy, they will stop trying to dehumanize us. It was a beautiful dream. But October 7th killed that...

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The real cause of the antisemitism tsunami This week’s Jerusalem conference on antisemitism was boycotted by a number of international participants who withdrew on account of the presence of “populists” from European parties they termed “far right.” The boycotters claimed that these parties themselves harbored antisemitism. Some European populist...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook and Substack pages.Tiki Torches Photoshopped Into Campus Riot Photos So Democrats Will Care New York, March 27 - Jewish activists and their allies resorted to a tactic more associated with the opposition this week, by altering images of the antisemitic...

Here's a horrific story out of Egypt, apparently from January:In one of the most painful incidents to have shaken Egyptian society, security services revealed the tragedy of a young woman, Badriya, who was held captive for six years by her family in a dark room, shackled, and subjected to inhumane conditions, in retaliation for what they considered "family honor."The 25-year-old...

Up until now in this series, we have been looking at different antisemitic philosophies and shown how they all seem to be consistent with supersessionism - the desire to replace the Jews with another people.When is comes to Palestinianism, however, supersessionism is the entire point.Palestinian nationalism was created for one reason only: to counter and defeat Jewish nationalism....

The protests in Gaza against Hamas have gotten so large that the world media cannot ignore them. But what is Hamas saying?In its first statement about the protests, Hamas said that they weren't really that big a deal:Any spontaneous slogans or positions issued by some demonstrators against the resistance approach do not reflect the general national position. Rather, they...

From the Columbia Spectator:The American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday for the immediate cancellation of $400 million in federal funding to Columbia.The lawsuit reads that leveraging financial assistance to the University “underscores the threat to academic freedom.” That...

03/26 Links Pt2: Pro-Palestine American Jews, you’ve been had; Columbia proves it was lying all along about fighting Jew-hate; Gal Gadot’s security enhanced amid death threats

From Ian: Pro-Palestine American Jews, you’ve been had Among those who forcibly occupied Trump Tower recently to protest the deportation of a violent antisemite, were members of the Jewish Voice for Peace, who, along with other far-left groups like IfNotNow, have been parading support for Hamas since its Oct. 7 attack. The scene was a chilling reminder of the giant rift splitting...

From Ian: Court freezes PA tax funds for bereaved father whose family was killed by terrorists The Jerusalem District Court issued an order on Tuesday to freeze NIS 50 million ($13.7 million) worth of Palestinian Authority tax dollars after Rabbi Leo Dee, whose wife and two daughters were murdered by Hamas terrorists two years ago, sued the West Bank-based government. The...

Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.ChatGPT can be a real timesaver for minor tasks. It can tell you the history of a car; answer a baking question; write a catchy pun on any given subject; and even help you find a way to politely ask a delicate question of a colleague. Of course, it’s not without...

Last night, 100,000 Arab Muslims said the Isha and Tarawih prayers on the Temple Mount. This is the most I ever remember reading about for the nighttime prayers. So far during Ramadan, that is about the number that have been there for the morning prayers as well. This year, apparently for the first time, Israeli police are visible during prayers. This...